Growth, Trade, and Deindustrialization

Author/Editor:

Ramana Ramaswamy ; Bob Rowthorn

Publication Date:

April 1, 1998

Electronic Access:

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Summary:

This paper shows that deindustrialization is explained primarily by trends internal to the advanced economies. These include the combined effects on manufacturing employment of a relatively faster growth of productivity in manufacturing, the associated relative price changes, and shifts in the structure of demand between manufactures and services. North-South trade explains less than one fifth of deindustrialization in the advanced economies. Moreover, the contribution of North-South trade to deindustrialization has been mainly through its effects in stimulating labor productivity in Northern manufacturing. It has had little enduring effect on total manufacturing output in the advanced economies.

Series:

Working Paper No. 1998/060

Subject:

Notes:

Also published in Staff Papers, Vol. 46, No. 1, March 1999.

English

Publication Date:

April 1, 1998

ISBN/ISSN:

9781451848021/1018-5941

Stock No:

WPIEA0601998

Pages:

28

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